Sari L. Brecosky,

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A decade of social turbulence!!!
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The 60s brought us Go Go boots!
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Barbie Doll
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The first doll for boys GI Joe
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Annette Funicello and Frankie Avalon were movie
stars. This is a picture of Annette. Annette and
Frankie became famous for their singing and
dancing in the movies.
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The toucan bird became the symbol for Fruit
Loops cereal
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Here a samples of some fashionable cars. But
there were lots and lots of station wagons on the
road. The station wagon in the sixties is what
the SUV is today.
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Examples of popular teen magazines.
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The Etch a Sketch was created in the 60s.
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The influence on fashion the James Bond movies
had.
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People were afraid of an atom attack, so many
built bomb shelters on their property.
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The lava lamp came to us thanks to the 60s.
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Manufactured marbles with decorative colors
inside is a product from the 60s
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The pinball machine becomes very, very popular in
the 60s.
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Milk came in bottles. . .
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Tupperware came to us in the 60s. Women were
amazed how the plastic containers kept food
fresher longer.
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Civil unrest Establishment VS
Anti-establishment
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The fantastic four The Beatles
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Martin Luther King
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Clocks like this were in almost every living room
across America.
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• Telephone numbers with a word prefix (OLive-6933)
  
• Party Lines you shared your telephone line with
  another household. As such, sometimes you would
  pick up the phone and the other people would be
  using the phone. You could hear them talking!
• There were NO buttons on phones
• Until the 60s ALL phones were black. The 60s
  brought color!

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Radio although FM was available it was very
difficult to pick up the signal.
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Record Player There were no tapes or CDs or
Ipods back then.
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Television became the largest growth area for an
expanding American media --1946 7,000
sets --1960 50 million sets TVs impact on
culture Advertising on TV Fifties television
programming
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Charge Cards became available for the middle
class.
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Womens Liberation

• New wave of feminism grew out of other reform
  efforts
• 1964 Civil Rights Act no job discrimination on
  the basis of sex

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Presidents of the sixties
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The adding machine. . .
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The Underwood typewriter. . .
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Guns, guns, guns. . .
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The movies. . .
Twenty-five cents would get you a double feature
and a bunch of cartoons to boot.
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The first James Bond movieDr. NO
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Lets not forget Elvis!
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Trading Cards. . .
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Refrigeration. . .
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Stoves. . .
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The TV becomes more and more important. . .
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Transportation
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The wringer washer. . .
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Casper the friendly ghost. . .
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1966 Plastic bag used in bread packaging takes
over 25 to 30 percent of the market.
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The Drive-In Theater
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S H Green stamps used to be given to you when
you made purchases at grocery or other stores.
You collected the stamps and pasted them into
these little booklets that held so many stamps
per book. When you had saved up books of stamps,
you could redeem the books in at the Green Stamp
store or use mail order for various items. Their
competitor was Blue Chip Stamps.
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Metal Ice Cube Trays need hot
waterRefrigerators did not have automatic
ice-makers.
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Candy cigarettes anyone?
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The bouffant hairdo. . .
The beehive hairdo. . .
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Dick and Jane Readers